Patrick Godana

Eastern Cape Provincial Manager

Management

Patrick Godana is Sonke’s Eastern Cape Provincial Manager. Prior to taking on this role he was Government and Media Liaison. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Patrick was an anti-apartheid activist in the Eastern Cape township of New Brighton.

A member of Umkhonto We Sizwe, the ANC’s armed wing, he spent many years in exile and was subsequently incarcerated as a political prisoner.

With the arrival of the new democratic dispensation, Patrick earned a degree in theology from the University of the Western Cape and shortly thereafter took a position at the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPSA) where he was influential in shaping the design of the Men as Partners (MAP) Programme.

After leaving PPASA, Patrick coordinated a workplace HIV/AIDS programme for Ford Motor Company in Port Elizabeth. He then joined EngenderHealth in 2005 and provided training and technical assistance to a range of organisations in the Western and Eastern Cape including the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the Steve Biko Foundation and Masimanyane Women’s Support Centre.

During this period Patrick represented the Men As Partners Network internationally, traveling to Sweden and Mozambique, amongst other places. He has been at Sonke since 2008 and has held a number of positions, including coordinating the implementation of work with children affected by HIV and AIDS in the Eastern Cape, implementing the MenCare Campaign in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana and coordinating Sonke’s community mobilisation work in rural parts of the Eastern Cape.

Patrick is an ordained Lutheran priest and ministers to a multi-racial, social justice focused congregation in Cape Town. He and his wife Thoko have two children and live in Cape Town.

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Sonke Gender Justice is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation, established in 2006. Today, Sonke has established a growing presence on the African continent and plays an active role internationally. Sonke works to create the change necessary for men, women, young people and children to enjoy equitable, healthy and happy relationships that contribute to the development of just and democratic societies. Sonke pursues this goal across Southern Africa by using a human rights framework to build the capacity of government, civil society organisations and citizens to achieve gender equality, prevent gender-based violence and reduce the spread of HIV and the impact of AIDS.